CORPUS CHRISTI - A Corpus Christi man was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in federal prison for unlawfully manufacturing and trafficking AK-47s.

Michael Yarbrough, 22, was indicted and arrested in July after being linked to at least one weapons seizure in which three people were killed in Mexico, according to a news release from the U.S. attorney’s office.

When Yarbrough’s makeshift factory was raided in August 2011, it was the largest gun seizure in the history of the Corpus Christi Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos gave Yarborough the maximum sentence allowed by law. It will be followed by a three-year-term of supervised release. Evidence presented at sentencing included Yarbrough’s purchase of more than 900 parts kits and firearm receivers during a seven-month period, valued at more than $200,000, according to the release.

Evidence also was presented that Yarbrough was selling the weapons to someone on the Mexico-U.S. border for further transport into Mexico. Several of the AK-47s manufactured by Yarbrough were seized in Mexico, including one seizure in which three men were killed, according to the release.